Prophets of Regulation / Edition 1

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Editorial Reviews

New York Times Book Review

McCraw explains sophisticated economic theory in accessible terms, and he has a historian's knack for isolating such basic American traits as a mistrust of big business and for showing how regulators manipulated these traits to implement their policies.

Washington Post Book World

A novel, stimulating approach… McCraw's effort to clarify the nature of regulation by carefully integrating biography, history of ideas and regulatory strategy pays handsome dividends… Each of these 'prophets' wrote extensively, even compulsively, about the theory and practice of regulation. McCraw skillfully melds their words and actions into a series of revealing intellectual portraits.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780674716087
  • Publisher: Harvard University Press
  • Publication date: 10/28/1986
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 416
  • Sales rank: 829,027
  • Product dimensions: 6.15 (w) x 9.29 (h) x 1.01 (d)

Meet the Author

Thomas K. McCraw was Straus Professor of Business History Emeritus at Harvard Business School and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History.

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Table of Contents

  • Adams and the Sunshine Commission
  • State to Federal, Railroads to Trusts
  • Brandeis and the Origins of the FTC
  • Antitrust, Regulation, and the FTC
  • Landis and the Statecraft of the SEC
  • Ascent, Decline, and Rebirth
  • Kahn and the Economist’s Hour
  • Regulation Reconsidered
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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